Double vinyl LP pressing. 2013 collection from the Turkish Rock legend. Master of the fuzz saz, Turkey's answer to Eric Clapton brings burly axe attacks to the snakey folk melodies of Anatolia. Long proven to cause just the brain-rot you're looking for, here's a Koray collection of tracks taken from singles and LPs for your acid-drenched pleasure. The guitar slinger who was once stabbed for wearing his hair too long around the streets of Istanbul interweaves melodies as old as the ruins of

Multiculti Los Angeles-based 10-piece Ozomatli is more than the sum of their parts: hip-hop, salsa, and funk crash head-on in this surprisingly natural collaboration. Their self-titled debut makes Ozomatli sound like one of the world's great live shows--a party band with a brain--and they pull it off deftly. Rapper Chali 2na (''Charlie Tuna,'' get it?) has an authoritative voice and a way with words, mixing references from Edie Brickell to Ed McMahon; just he and the Cut Chemist (both of

Maher Zain comes from Mediterranean city of Tripoli - Lebanon. His new Album ''Thank You Allah'' mixes the sounds of R&B with traditional nasheed and pop. It is a bright and shining testament to faith in Allah and praise for his countless blessings. Warner. 2010..

With the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Sahara Desert to the south, North Africa serves as a crossroad between many cultures. The Atlantic coast of Morocco forms the Western boundary of North Africa and the Suez Canal in Egypt its eastern end. Most of North Africa is known as the Maghreb and includes the countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. Egypt, which is generally considered part of the Middle East, is geographically part of North Africa. Echoes of ancient history can

A Time of Peace is an instrumental collection of Christmas songs performed on traditional Middle Eastern instruments by Brothers of the Baladi, in the true spirit of the holidays. If a cold desert night were bathed by the light of the crescent moon and a wiseman's star, if the sounds of string, flute, and drum silenced the anxious cries of battle, it would be a night when warriors of different faiths would share the melodies of their homelands and of Holy Days long ago. It would be a night of

Music in today's northwest Turkey can be divided into three main divisions: traditional folk music, Turkish classical music and western-influenced music, whether religious or not. The selections in this collection are all non-religious and they cover the first two of these main divisions. Musicologists still argue as to the exact origins of today's Turkish folk music, Suffice it to say that the richness of Turkey's cultural heritage owes much to its unique location, which many tribes and

Among Real World's most emblematic artists, the late Pakistani qawwal singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was a man of impressive, even daunting, stature. The emotional intensity and soaring power of his voice transcend all boundaries of language or religion, and popularized this inspirational music beyond Muslim peoples to audiences worldwide. Each vocal performance on this 1989 recording is utterly captivating. A bonus 24-bit hi-res download is included with this LP reissue..

A Chant follows a prayer read by John Philip Newell. Although, this is a beautiful companion CD to the book by the same name, it serves also to be a lovely way to deepen one's mediative practice. The Chants are led by Suzanne Butler and backed by the ''Sounds of the Eternal'' ensemble..

Sarah Brightman Photos More from Sarah Brightman Time to Say Goodbye Diva: The Singles Collection Eden Diva: The Video Collection Live from Las Vegas La Luna (Live in Concert) If one's notion of ''world music'' promises a touch of the exotic and indigenous, often overlooked is the fact that the influence of western pop music has seeped into every corner of the globe, creating a hybrid that's often more than merely the sum of its influences.